The adventures, stories, and inspirations of Elder Trevor Petersen while serving an LDS mission to Singapore, Malaysia.
As recorded by his mom...

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Iban & Indon Villages, I Love the Natives....

saya sudah mininggal,

Trevor's 2012 Valentine

hey what's up everyone. thanks for the awesome emails. pretty funny. it sounds like valentine's day was fun. sounds like oskar is a little player ha ha. pretty much nothing happened here. i have no kekasih. you didn't meet joseph did you? i wonder what he's like now. are you going to the homecoming? ya that would be sweet if thomas came to arches. is there room? john comes home to washington the last week of may. it seems like just yesterday we all left. crazy.

spencer's got to get off starcraft. we just had a training about addictive destructive wasteful things and video games was in the line up. ha ha. they're not bad just time consuming. president clark said his smart smart son in law did terrible in college because he just always wanted to play video games. so he couldn't even do the program he wanted.

oh hey i just got another letter from the johnson's yesterday. it was good. it looks like i'll be home to see joe married ha ha.

what the heck mom! just throwing that last line out there nonchalantly. ha ha you are so mean. oh mercy funeral potatoes and spare ribs sounds so so so good. jahatnya kamu!

things are still going awesome here. i can't remember what happened this last week to tell you about though. let's see. i've gone on two trips since last wednesday. thursday we took off to tawau for two days. tuesday we flew down to sibu for two days. it is so fun. in tawau we just went on normal splits.

Traditional Bajau Wedding Picture....just a picture :)

old EngKang...He is the manElder Trotter and Trevor

Sitting on the Kursi Raja (King Chair) it's not as comfy as ours at home, but EngKang handcarved it. Pretty cool.

elder trotterand i saw this little culture fair thing so we went and checked it out. they had a bunch of different booths from a bunch of different malaysian and indon native tribes. the iban one was so funny. this old guy really wanted to dance for us. at another one they dressed us up because an old lady really really wanted to take pictures with us. we also got our picture with a bajau girl in a wedding type picture haha, and also a cool kadazan man playing the flute. it was a lot of fun.

while meeting all of these people we made some contacts and found out about another iban village that is all christian that is not far from tawau. that is really good news. hope it pays off. also while in tawau i met up with a family that has a son in kk that i baptized. the old dad lived in kk for a while and he is so funny. he just moved back to tawau. he was happy to see me again. i'll send you a picture.ha ha i love the natives.

Iban Traditional Clothes

we went to sibu on tuesday for zone leader council. it is a once a month meeting. it was actually really good. president clark is awesome. he gives such good trainings. i always leave those things feeling pumped. i'm supposed to give the same training to the other districts in our zone. i feel bad for them because i wish they could just hear it from pres clark. i can't do it justice. it is always a blast to see the whole gang each month. the zone leaders across east are way funny right now. every one is a good reunion. there's me, brodie, maughan, pendleton, stratton, howell, hunt, gallinger, polley, and georing. awesome.

well there was no big, big advances by any of our investigators this week. but things are still progressing. we are teaching a way nice family. i'll keep you posted on them if they progress. the dad's name is peter. we are praying hard for them. on monday we met a really cool referral named sensi. she was just one of those people that gives all of the right answers to every question. she is way way good. we invited her to church on sunday but she said she had to go back to kampung because her father in law or something had a stroke. bummer. but she is way good. she just really digested everything we told her. later the same day we met a different referral from a different member across town. she's awesome. we invited her and her family to church on sunday but she said that this weekend she has to go back to kampung because someone had a stroke. we thought hmm is there a bunch of strokes going around? could it be the same guy? ha ha we asked and sure enough the two referrals are cousins. they are from the same kampung. wow. so two referrals were referred to us by two different families and they are both cousins. that's cool. not a coincidence. they are both good. we're excited. but feel bad about the guy with the stroke.

oh my gosh other big news is that on tuesday my recent convert got engaged!! that is crazy. she is from my favorite sandakan family. her name is rainah and she is...16!! ha ha wow i was shocked to hear it. she's still in young women's ha ha. it's to a member though so that's good. better to a member than to a muslim. apparently it's official. the families got together and the dad's bartered over a price. ha ha kind of like johnny lingo. i think it's more of like a promise thing because it is still way far out. so we'll see. so weird. dad pretty soon i'm going to need you to come over here to malaysia to barter for my kadazan princess. ha ha ha...but seriously.

well this email was lame. but i hope you enjoyed it. i can't think of what to write. i hope you liked my pictures. i should be home pretty soon. pretty much everyone i meet tells me i'm dead and asks me if i'm trunky ha ha. yup it's true. i still haven't got any flight info for going home. i think they'll just email it straight to you. let me know i guess. well i love you all. no need to get me an iphone before i get home ha ha i was just wondering about it. but on the other hand i didn't get anything for my birthday.... jk ha ha. ok well say hi to the ward. i don't really recognize any of the names you were dropping. i don't think i'll know anybody when i get home ha ha. might as well move to washington. have a good week.